HAVANA, Cuba, May 9 (acn) An international event called Global Challenges of Industrial Property will be inaugurated tomorrow at Memories Miramar Hotel, in Havana.
John Sandage (USA), Deputy Director General for Patents and Technology at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), will be one of the speakers at the opening, Sandra Rodriguez Perez, executive of the Cuban Industrial Property Office (OCPI by its Spanish acronym), told ACN.
MSc. Maria de los Angeles Sanchez Torres, CIPO Director General, will also speak at the meeting, which will run until next Thursday.
One of the conferences that focus the attention of the delegates on the first day will be the one given by Dr. Eduardo Martínez Díaz, first vice president of Biocubafarma.
The latter is made up of 38 entities under business operating principles with impact on the scientific results, preservation of human capital, increasing export revenues, influence on macroeconomics and insertion in the world market.
Professionals from US, WIPO and primarily Cuban will speak at the event, where it stands the designation of origin "Cuban rum, its challenges" by legal advisers of the Corporation Cuba Ron S.A. and Havana Club International S.A.
The U.S.A Patent and Trademark Office decided last January that Cuba is the rightful owner of the trademark Havana Club, after a dispute of over two decades between Bacardi and Havana Club International S.A.
Havana Club rum is present in over 140 markets, from which US is excluded, and despite the recognition that Cuba is the rightful owner of the trademark, direct exports are prohibited by Washington to be placed on the world's leading rums market.
The administration of President Barack Obama allowed since January 2015 American citizens traveling to Cuba to return to their country with rum and cigars, as a measure of flexibilization that should not exceed spending $ 100 per person.
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